Good Reads: January 19, 2019

GOOD READS

Article / Infographic	Gist	URL / Source	Accessed On
How Technology Incumbents Can Realize Their Cloud Growth Ambitions	Cloud services and related software and hardware accounted for the majority of IT growth in 2013–17.	https://www.bain.com/insights/how-technology-incumbents-can-realize-their-cloud-growth-ambitions/	January 19, 2019
Top 5 Industries Blockchain is Likely to Disrupt [Infographic]	5 Industries Blockchain is Slated to Disrupt in The Coming Years	https://medium.com/data-tech/top-5-industries-blockchain-is-likely-to-disrupt-infographic-615fa03b9ebf	January 19, 2019
Three Ways AI is Impacting Logistics and Supply Chain	Transportation, logistics and supply chain processes are going through intense transformation. We have identified three ways AI can revolutionize supply chain management and logistics.	https://www.ssidecisions.com/blog/	January 19, 2019
Blockchain for Internet of Things	IoT solutions using blockchain can be built to maintain a continuously growing list of cryptographically secured data records protected against altering and updates. Such distributed systems will make our planet smarter, more productive, and open up a colossal scope of opportunities.	https://www.tcs.com/blockchain-for-iot	January 19, 2019
TCS a Leader in Blockchain Services: Everest Group	Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization, has been recognized as a Leader in the Everest Group PEAK Matrix™ for Blockchain Services[1].	https://www.tcs.com/tcs-leader-blockchain-services-everest-group	January 19, 2019
TCS Research and Innovation (Video)	MIT's Daniela Rus talks to TCS EVP and CTO K Ananth Krishnan on emerging applications of AI and robotics	https://www.tcs.com/tcs-cto-talks-to-mit-daniela-rus	January 19, 2019
Around the World: Latest Trends and Innovations	In this article, we take a look at the various technology trends and interesting solutions we came across while visiting different parts of the globe throughout the year	Electronics For You Volume 51, No. 1 January 2019 Page 54
The future of Present Technologies	Technology runs our lives these days. This article provides a quick look at the scope of the present technologies a few years down the line	Electronics For You Volume 51, No. 1 January 2019 Page 56
The latest in AI and its applications	AI is becoming a disruptive force that is redefining the modern industry. This article features some exciting applications of AI, along with a glimpse into the future, illustrating how AI will continue to transform industries and our lives	Electronics For You Volume 51, No. 1 January 2019 Page 34
How the IoT has evolved from M2M communication	The IoT is a network of devices connected to ISPs or WAN/MAN through an M2M gateway	Electronics For You Volume 51, No. 1 January 2019 Page 61
The Industries of tomorrow will be run by the IIOT	The Industrial Internet of Things enhances manufacturing and industrial processes.	Electronics For You Volume 51, No. 1 January 2019 Page 64
How the Blockchain can add transparency to Healthcare	Ever since the price of bitcoin went sky rocketing, the computer world has been excited about the blockchain. Everyday, new applications of the blockchain are being thought up and the focus has shifted to using it in every conceivable human activity. This article explains how blockchain technology can be used in healthcare	Open Source For You Volume 07, Issue 04 January 2019 Page 30
Potential Risks of Artificial Intelligence	Artificial Intelligence (AI) is benefiting society in about every way possible. AI-driven devices are becoming cognitive enough to aid people in times of need. However, AI can be a great risk to society if it ends up in the wrong hands.	Open Source For You Volume 07, Issue 04 January 2019 Page 40
OpenIoT: Enabling the Convergence of IoT and Cloud Computing	OpenIoT is a simple-to-use open source application, which connects all the sensors that use cloud technologies to make them an extension of your IoT application	Open Source For You Volume 07, Issue 04 January 2019 Page 100

Cloud Data Security - 2018 Ponemon Study Infographic

From safenet.gemalto.com

Key Points/Stats from this Infographic:

• In two years an average of 51% of all IT and data processing requirements will be in the cloud, an increase from today’s average of 39%.
• The average number of cloud apps & services used by companies today is 27.
• While 53% of respondents say their organization uses multi-factor authentication to secure access to data in the cloud environment, only 36% of respondents say their organization encrypts or tokenizes sensitive data within cloud applications.
• Source: https://safenet.gemalto.com/resources/data-protection/2018-cloud-data-security-ponemon-study-infographic/ (Accessed on January 19, 2019)

Here are the top 10 learning trends of 2019

Gen Z has a set of unique behavioural attributes which are shaping the needs of the education industry and pushing them to develop ways to deal with them.

 the present scenario, we are witnessing industries undergoing a disruption with a rapid convergence of technologies; which is faster than ever before! These constant changes are making competencies in workforce go obsolete leaving Lifelong Learning as the only feasible option. On the other side, Gen Z has a set of unique behavioural attributes which are shaping the needs of the education industry and pushing them to develop ways to deal with them.

Here are some of the industry trends of delivering learning by Venguswamy Ramaswamy, Global Head of TCS iON, a Tata Consultancy Services unit focused on education, assessment boards and SMBs:

1. Nano-learning

The attention span of learners is persistently shrinking. With the existence of lengthy, text-intensive, un-interactive learning content, students are unwilling to sit in sessions spread over hours. To address this, nano-learning or bite-sized learning is fast becoming a significant trend to support the learner behaviour and ensure attention.

2. Lifelong Learning

As per a report, by 2022, 9 per cent of India's workforce is expected to be employed in job roles that don't exist today while 37 per cent is believed to be in new job roles. In order to prepare for this change, it is important to know that learning is not discreet, rather a continuous and connected process in which the needs of the learners vary with time and the stage of their life. Every moment provides a learning opportunity.

Hence, it is necessary to keep a track of the learning culture of an individual across different stages and not just specific learning in a particular stage. This will help understand the capabilities of a learner in its true sense.

3. Mass personalization

The pattern of customer-based personalization is gradually progressing wherein adaptive means of learning is taking over the concept of 'one-size fits all'. Being an effective mode of learning, this approach takes into consideration the individual learner abilities, and the appropriate time to consume content, thereby enhancing the quality of learning and the overall experience of learners.

4. Data-driven learning

Every individual leaves a large footprint of his/her learning behaviour while learning. Today, such interactions (learning better with video, preferring game format, etc.) are acting as data sources for understanding the learner's patterns and trends, and for devising strategies to make learning more effective than before.

5. Self-paced learning

Learners have some nuances, which are unique to them where some students slow in a certain subject but might have the ability to grasp other subjects better. Taking this into consideration, the pace of the content is now being adjusted according to the strengths and weaknesses of the individual student in specific subjects.

6. Addictive mechanisms in learning

There are specific constructs either in the content or in the learning platform that attract a learner's attention. These include 'like' or 'comment' buttons, challenges, the capability to score and compete, win badges and points, and so on. The focus of learning is slowly transforming to include these constructs in the content to make learning more addictive.

7. Engaged or Immersive Learning

The learner today desires a learning experience with engaging, interactive content that includes games, puzzles, and surprises embedded within. Hence, there is a growing trend of designing content using technologies like augmented reality and virtual reality to create immersive and engaging experiences.

8. Collaborative learning

Learning is no longer a one-to-one interaction between the content and the learner. Instead, it is transforming to be an interaction between a group of people in a community construct where students can learn by debating and deliberating on a common platform.

This concept moves beyond the traditional custom of a student and a teacher. A teacher's role is to facilitate learning for learners together learn from each other.

9. Twenty-first-century skills

According to a survey, India is expected to form 25 per cent of the world's workforce by 2025. This creates the urgency to equip the country's youth with 21-century skills which have a much higher preference over specific domain skills.

Today, learners are assessed on their ability to work in teams, be ethical in given scenarios, and to be creative and assertive. As a result, the focus has shifted towards developing these capabilities to help learners have a greater advantage in the job space. It is not just academics; it extends beyond to social skills.

10. Learning experience platform

Today, rendering mere content is not enough; instead one needs to render experiences to make learning enjoyable. The emphasis rests on enhancing the learner experience management system which uses engaging game cartridges to modulate experiences while delivering content.

As we progress in 2019, we have our energies focused on these evolving trends which are about to dominate the next set of years and we are in the forefront of driving these trends in the market itself.

Source: https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/featurephilia/story/the-top-10-learning-trends-of-2019-1427682-2019-01-10 (Accessed on January 19, 2019)

IBM Earns Over 800 Patents In 2018; India 2nd Highest Contributor

0 Comments 99

Share

IBM inventors from India earned over 800 patents – the second highest contributor to the company’s global record of 9,100 patents in the US in 2018 – with nearly half in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, cyber security, blockchain and quantum computing.

One of the patents filed from India went to IBM inventors Shivali Agarwal, Gaargi B Dasgupta, Shripad J Nadgowda and Tapan K Nayak, the company has said in a statement. They developed an AI-based approach for structured representation and classification of noisy and unstructured data in tickets used in service delivery.

Ticket analysis helps create problem diagnostics, prediction of outages and prevention of issues in service delivery, for example for help desks.

“IBM is committed to leading the way on the technologies that change the way the world works – and solving problems many people have not even thought of yet,” said Ginni Rometty, IBM Chairman, President and CEO.

Among more than 1,600 AI patents included “Project Debater” that, with the use of Machine Learning, can debate humans on complex topics — identifying evidence such as relevant text segments in unstructured text data, which supports or opposes a claim or topic under consideration.

IBM inventors received more than 2,000 cloud computing and over 1,600 AI patents.

The new patents were granted to a diverse group of more than 8,500 IBM inventors in 47 US states and 48 countries.

Source: https://www.expresscomputer.in/artificial-intelligence-ai/ibm-earns-over-800-patents-in-2018-india-2nd-highest-contributor/31472/ (Accessed on January 16, 2019)

New research could allow fast diagnosis of viruses like Ebola and Zika

A new development in molecular biology is a step towards enabling mobile and instant diagnosis of viruses like Ebola or Zika in the field. The Oxford Nanopore MinION device can sequence DNA and RNA in real time, and researchers at the French agriculture research center CIRAD have found a way to use the device as a tool for identifying plant viruses and potentially animal and human viruses too.

The researchers at CIRAD were searching for a way to diagnose viruses quickly and early in the infection process, so they could avoid the time consuming and potentially dangerous process of transferring contaminated samples to a lab. They struck on using the portable sequencer MinION device, which in the last few years since its development has become a common tool for biological analysis techniques like de novo sequencing, targeted sequencing, metagenomics, and epigenetics. The CIRAD team were able to both test and validate that the device could be used in plant virology, making it an invaluable potential tool for diagnosing viruses in real world outbreaks.

“Using a diseased yam plant, it took us just a few hours to sequence the entire genome of two single-strand RNA viruses, a macluravirus and a potyvirus,” CIRAD researcher Denis Filloux said in a statement. This fast and accurate diagnosis technique is a first step to providing real time detection of chronic viruses with a mobile device which can be used even in isolated and remote areas.

A new technique will make it possible to detect viruses in the field. In this case, a yam plot in Guadeloupe. D. Filloux, Cirad

A key aspect of virus outbreak management is shortening the time between taking a sample of a possibly infected plant and diagnosing it as carrying a particular virus. With this development, this process can be achieved in a shorter time to help public health officials to detect potentially harmful outbreaks at an earlier stage than was previously possible. With the new technique, the device will be able to examine the whole genetic structure of a virus quickly: “The technology is characterized by the production of long nucleotide sequences, which makes it possible to sequence the entire viral genome,” Philippe Roumagnac, a virologist with CIRAD, said in the statement.

This technology would be especially valuable in developing countries where there is often a lack of laboratories which can diagnose viruses and limited understanding of how to manage outbreaks and transport contaminated samples.

 Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/mobile-virus-diagnosis/ (Accessed on January 16, 2019)